Peter Conrad: ”Could there, I asked Wood, be such a thing as a religious novel – a book that is positively for God, not against him?”

James Wood: ”Probably not,” he replied. “I can only think of bad Christian novels, like Graham Greene’s. There are mystical novels – To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway – and in The Brothers Karamazov you have something like the iconostasis in a Russian Orthodox cathedral […]”